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Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that bring the past to life.

During the First World War, Rudyard Kipling (author of "The Jungle Book" amongst others) pulled strings to get his son a commission after he failed his army medical.

His intervention would end in tragedy for both father and son.

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Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that bring the past to life.

Alfred is the only English king to be called "The Great".
But how did he earn that accolade?

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Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that bring the past to life.

The real story behind the film, "Pressure", of Group Captain Stagg and his crucial weather forecasts in June 1944.

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Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that bring the past to life.

The forgotten 20-year colonial war in Africa, that British fought against one of her most tenacious and elusive opponents.

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Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians, Alfred the Great's daughter, who took England's fight to the Vikings.

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Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life.

The audacious plot to kidnap the future King William IV during the American Revolution.

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Rhorke's Drift: The Commander Who Wasn't There
Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life.

The story of Major Henry Spalding, the man who should have been in command at the battle of Rorke's Drift, but who had ridden off a few hours before the Zulus attacked.

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Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life.

In this episode we explore how the death of a forgotten heir to the Tudor throne, resulted in Henry VIII becoming king and, ultimately, the English Reformation, the dissolution of the monasteries, and the break between the Church of England and the Pope in Rome.

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